1 in 10 ISIS recruits willing to become suicide bombers, leaked documents show

Twelve percent of Islamic State recruits are willing to become suicide bombers, according to analysts who combed through a trove of thousands of leaked documents containing the personal details of some 22,000 fighters.

Dozens of British fighters can be found among the recruits, including Birmingham hacker Junaid Hussain and Reyaad Khan of Cardiff, who were both killed in a US drone strike last year.

The leaked files, which contain the names, nationalities, addresses, telephone numbers and other personal details of jihadists who joined the terrorist network in 2013 and 2014, reveal that two thirds of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) recruits are between the ages 21 and 30, though a number were found to be in their teens and in their 60s.

The oldest person in the database was a 70-year-old father of five from Kyrgyzstan.

“The largest takeaway from these documents is the massive diversity of the population,” Brian Dodwell, deputy director of the Combating Terrorism Center at US Military Academy at West Point, told NBC News.

“We’re talking about very diverse backgrounds from an education perspective — individuals who list their education as none up to those who listed their educations as PhDs, masters degrees, MBAs … Everything from laborers to doctors and lawyers.”